sebi:WTM/TCN/26/IVD/AUG/08
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Facts / Headnote
Enquiry proceedings disposed of with no penalty imposed on the broker
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 13(4)
Parties
- M/s Sanchay Fincom Ltd.
Holding
The Whole Time Member found no reason to differ with the Enquiry Officer's recommendation of no penalty and disposed of the enquiry proceedings against broker M/s Sanchay Fincom Ltd. without levying any penalty. The charges of violating Regulation 7 of the SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers) Regulations, 1992 and Regulation 4 of the PFUTP Regulations were not established with reasonably good evidence.
Full text
Page 2 of 5 initial days of listing there was hardly any interest in the scrip. Therefore, liquidity was required to be brought in to facilitate the off loading of shares by the MD of GIL to some entities who in turn would off load the same to the general investing public. Shri Prasad approached Shri C P Khandelwal of M/s. Southern Shares & Stocks Ltd. (Southern Shares), member of BSE to offload the shares at BSE who in turn approached Shri Arun Kumar Dalmia (Shri Dalmia) of M/s. Satya Securities, who assured that it would arrange for the buyers for the shares when they are offloaded by Shri Prasad.
Page 3 of 5 5. The enquiry officer has found that modus operandi was with the purpose to create artificial liquidity in the scrip so that the shares were offloaded by Shri Prasad through Southern Shares. In the whole process of getting the shares issued to Shri Prasad on preferential basis and thereafter getting the shares offloaded in the market at artificially jacked up prices, Shri Prasad earned enormous amount of money to the detriment of other investors in the company.
Page 4 of 5 argued that there was nothing illegal in the modus operandi adopted by the said clients, though it was not aware of any such scheme at the time of execution of the trades.
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